Insects

There is a rather large - about four inches, head to tail - praying mantis clinging to the outside of my window. We just had a brief thunderstorm, and things get blown about....

This is the third largish insect I've seen in the last few days; there was a dragonfly (memory says about three inches, but my judgment of lengths is suspect¹) flitting around near the Science Building two or three days ago, and the largest katydid I've ever seen hanging on the University bus shelter. I don't know whether there are more of them about, the weather is making them more conspicuous, or I've just been noticing them more.

There've been some pretty big moths around, too. At least there are no cicadas :knock wood:.

[1] I used a tape measure to check the length of the praying mantis.